Paul Jones Semmes

Paul Jones Semmes (4 June 1815-10 July 1863) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Paul Jones Semmes was born in Wilkes County, Georgia on 4 June 1815, the cousin of naval hero Raphael Semmes. Semmes became a banker and planter after graduating from the University of Virginia, and he served as a captain in the state militia from 1846 to 1861. In 1860, he became a Brigadier-General of the Knights of the Golden Circle and Quartermaster-General of the Georgia militia, and he commanded a brigade of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Semmes was mortally wounded in the thigh during the Wheat Field stage of the Battle of Gettysburg on 2 July 1863, and he died in Martinsburg, West Virginia eight days later.